Glove-adjuster



(No Model.)

M. E. TOWSE.

GLOVE ADJUSTER.

No. 427,133. I Patented May 6, 1890.

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G LOVE-ADJUSTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,133, dated May 6, 1890. Application filed September 28, 1889. Serial No. 325,434. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARIA ELIZABETH ToWsE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and

State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Glove, &c., Adjuster, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an appliance designed to facilitate the operation of putting on articles of wear--as, for example, glovesand has for its object the provision of a device simple in construction, cheap in manufacture, and efficient in practical use.

To attain the designed end my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a plan, and Fig. 2 a perspective, view of my invention.

Like letters of reference, wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Referring again to the drawings, A represents the body of my appliance ordinarily made flat and provided at one or both ex.- tremities with blades, the whole being constructed of gutta-percha or like material or of other approved substance, as, for instance, metal.

At the extremity of the body A, which serves as a handle by which the instrument may be grasped, is placed an enlargement or blade A, the side edges a a of which are turned upward, in order to conform to the surface of the body on which it is laid-as, for example, the thumb-=thusforming a concave 0r trough-shaped vessel.

When my appliance is used in adjusting a glove, the fingers are first fitted on, and then the blade A is introduced between the glovethumb and the thumb of the person, which,

owing to the thinness of the glove-adjuster,.

is an easy task. The blade A is ordinarily wider than the body A and serves to lift up the glove from the thumb, after which the glove, together with the handle A, is grasped by the free hand, and the glove thus readily fitted to the thumb.

blade A may be conformed to the shape of the thumb, and the concave blade A may be fashioned so as to fit over the side of the hand.

It is obvious that my appliance may be used with other articles of wear, and may be utilized wherever circumstances admit of the employment of a thin curved-up blade being inserted between the person and the covering, thus raising the same, and a preferably flat handle or body whereby both the instrument and the garment may be grasped, and the latter thereby drawn into proper position, as hereinbefore set forth.

As it is evident that many slight changes in the form, construction, and relative arrangement of parts might be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, I would have it understood that I do not restrict myself to the particular construction and arrangement of parts shown and described, but that I reserve the right to make such changes, and that WVhatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, a gloveadjuster consisting of a thin handle provided with an enlarged concave blade curved to conform to the shape of the thumb, the greater part of said blade projecting to one side of the longitudinal axis of the handle, substantially as described.

2. Asanew article of manufacture, a glove= adjuster consisting of a thin handle provided with an enlarged concave blade curved to conform to the shape of the thumb, the greater part of said blade projecting to one side of the longitudinal axis of the handle, and said handle terminating in a second straight concave blade adapted to conform to the shape of the side of the hand, substantially as described.

In testimony of the foregoingspecification I do hereby sign the same, in the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, this 27th day of September, A. D. 1889.

MARIA ELIZABETH TOIVSE.

Witnesses:

GEO. WV. IVIERCER, S. (J. DUVAL. 

